Khajuraho

• Description
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• Facilities
• Tickets
• Notification
• Location
• Approach

Description

This is a small open temple of fourteen pillars situated in front of LakshmanaTemple. This temple is dedicated to Varaha, incarnation of Vishnu. This temple is an oblong chamber 20'-6" in length and 16 ft. in width, with a portico of two pillars on its west side, and is placed on a high plinth. The Shikhara of the temple is constructed of stepped horizontal courses like that of the Matangesvara temple, while the ceiling is composed of concentric rectangles of plain stones, the contracted opening at the top bring closed by a pair of slabs carved with a full blown lotus. The colossal statue of the Varaha, which stands on a low pedestal in the middle of the temple, measures 8'-9" in length and 5'-9" in height, and is carved out of a single block of stone. There are various depictions seen on all over the body of Varaha. The depictions are of Hindu gods and goddesses, including Brahma, Vishnu, Siva, Surya, Sarasvati, Ganga, Nagadevas, Gandharvas, Dikpalas, and the Navagraha or Nine Planets. The figure of the earth goddess, Prithivi, whom the deity had raised from the ocean with his left tooth, is broken off, but traces of her feet still remain on the pedestal. On the pedestal beneath the boar are the remains of a long and sinuous figure of a serpent deity (Nagi), in a devotional attitude.

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Tickets

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Approach

•  By Air : Khajuraho
•  By Bus : Khajuraho
•  By Train : Khajuraho

Facilities

• PNB, CNB, Other signages
• Drinking water ,Toilet
• Publication Sale Counter
• Clock Room
• Access for physically chalanged person
• Cafeteria, Parking

Notification

Preliminary	Pre PDF	Final	Final PDF
F.3-66/52 A2, dt. 4/11/1952 vide SRO 1999 pub dt. 6/12/1952		F.3-66/52 A2 SRO 865, dt. 30/4/1953

Location

Locality	Tehsil	District	State
Khajuraho	Rajnagar	Chhatarpur	M.P.